Lawyer for Hakim Is Seeking To Bar Handing Over Papers

AP

Published: September 4, 1987

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—
Albert Hakim, the Iranian-American businessman, is a target of the Iran-Contra grand jury's investigation and would incriminate himself if compelled to produce records of purported covert arms deals, his attorney told an appeals court today.

Mr. Hakim told Congress at public hearings in June that he had worked with retired Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord in the private Iran-Contra network directed from the White House by Lt. Col. Oliver North.

And Mr. Hakim furnished some financial records to the Iran-Contra committees, but only under a grant of limited immunity that stipulated his testimony and the documents he furnished couldn't be used against him.

Today, his attorney, N. Richard Janis, told the United States Circuit Court of Appeals that providing the grand jury with records of foreign companies his client ran would violate Mr. Hakim's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

Mr. Hakim, 50 years old, is appealing a contempt of court citation for refusing to give the independent counsel, Lawrence E. Walsh, records of Swiss-based corporations he operated with General Secord.